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Core Computational Science People

Focus Area Head

	Allen, Gabrielle Core Computational Science Focus Area Head Room 305, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 6955 http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~gallen/
Gabrielle Allen is an associate professor in computer science and focus area head of the core computational science focus area at CCT. She received her Ph.D. in computational astrophysics from Cardiff University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and led its efforts in computational science for a number of years before joining CCT.

Faculty

Aksoylu, Burak
Assistant Professor

Room 333, Johnston Hall
Department: Mathematics
+1 225 578 8984
[email-address]

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~burak/

Burak Aksoylu, assistant professor, joined the LSU faculty from the University of Texas at Austin where he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. Aksoylu received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego. His research interests include numerical solutions to PDE, scientific computation, multilevel preconditioners.

Brenner, Dr. Susanne
Professor

Room 330, Johnston Hall
Department: Mathematics
[email-address]

	Iyengar, Sitharama Roy Paul Daniels Professor Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 1495
Dr. Iyengar is the chairman of LSU's computer science department and Roy Paul Daniels Professor of Computer Science.

	Jha, Shantenu Sr. Research Scientist & Assistant Research Professor (CS) Room 214, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 8772 http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~sjha/
Jha's research interests are in Computational Science and High-Performance and Distributed Computing.

Karki, Bijaya
Assistant Professor

[email-address]

	Katz, Daniel S. Director for Cyberinfrastructure Development Room 343, Johnston Hall Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering +1 225 578 2750 http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~dsk/
Daniel S. Katz is assistant director for CyD at CCT, and adjunct associate professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his PhD from Northwestern University, then spent 3 years as a computational scientist for Cray Research. He came to LSU after 9 1/2 years at JPL. His research focuses on large-scale applications.

	Kosar, Tevfik Assistant Professor Room 333, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 8983 http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~kosar/
Tevfik Kosar is assistant professor in computer science. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include distributed systems, grid and collaborative computing; data intensive distributed computing; resource allocation and management; fault tolerance; coordination of computation and I/O in distributed systems.

	Park, Seung-Jong Assistant Professor Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 8933
Seung-Jong Park is an assistant professor. He received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His teaching interests include computer networks, network protocols, wireless networks, mobile computing, distributed systems and operating systems.

Ramanujam, Jagannathan 'Ram'
Ritter Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering
Designated Professor

Room 345, EE Building
Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering
+1 225 578 5628
[email-address]

http://www.ece.lsu.edu/jxr/jxr.html

Dr. Ramanujam is the John E. and Beatrice L. Ritter Distinguished Professor in the LSU department of electrical and computer engineering. His research interests include compiler optimizations for high-performance computing, computational science, computer architecture, embedded systems, and hardware synthesis and optimization. He received the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award in 1994. In addition, he has received the best paper awards at the 2003 International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2003) and the 2004 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2004) for his work with others on compiler optimizations for quantum chemistry computations.

	Saylor, Paul Professor Room 330, Johnston Hall Department: Mathematics +1 225 578 8108
Paul Saylor is a professor of mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Rice University. His research interests include scientific computing and numerical analysis.

Schnetter, Dr. Erik
Assistant Research Professor and Research Scientist

Room 327, Johnston Hall
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
+1 225 578 8907
[email-address]

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~eschnett/

Erik Schnetter is a researcher in the Coast-to-Cosmos focus area at the CCT. His main scientific interests include black holes and neutron stars in relativistic computational astrophysics as well as high performance computing and software frameworks in computer science. He joined the CCT in September 2005.

Erik is the original author and the project leader of Carpet, the adaptive mesh refinement and multi-block driver for Cactus. He is principal investigator of the NSF "Alpaca" grant to invent new, framework-based profiling and debugging tools for HPC environments. He also participates in the XiRel collaboration to create and improve software infrastructure for numerical relativity.

Seidel, Edward
Director

Room 309, Johnston Hall
Department: Physics
+1 225 578 7877
[email-address]

http://director.cct.lsu.edu/

Edward Seidel is the director of the Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University and the Floating Point Systems Professor in LSU's Departments of Physics and Astronomy, and Computer Science. Seidel is well known for his work on numerical relativity and black holes, as well as in high-performance and grid computing. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in relativistic astrophysics. He headed the numerical relativity group as a professor at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institute) in Germany from 1996--2003, where he maintains an affiliation. He was previously a senior research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and associate professor in the Physics Department at the University of Illinois.

Seidel is a recipient of the 1998 Heinz-Billing-Preis of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; a recipient of the 2001 Gordon Bell Prize; and winner of various HPC Challenge awards at SC98, SC01, and SC02. In 2004, Seidel was named the Rising Star of the Year at the Governor's Technology Awards in Louisiana. He has been the PI or CoPI on large grants in Physics and Computational Science from NSF, DOE, NASA, the German DFN-Verein, and the European Commission, where he led the EU Astrophysics Network and was a leader in the GridLab project. He is the co-chair (emeritus) of the Applications Research Group, Global Grid Forum and chief scientist for the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI). He is the author or co-author of more than 150 publications, and serves on numerous national and international committees and advisory boards.

Sterling, Thomas
Full Professor

Room 314, Johnston Hall
Department: Computer Science
+1 225 578 8982
[email-address]

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~tron/

Thomas Sterling, professor, joined the LSU faculty from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he was a principal scientist and the California Institute of Technology where he was a faculty associate. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Sterling's research interests focus on system architecture for high performance computing for both ground based and autonomous mobile applications. He is developing the MIND processor in memory architecture based on ParalleX, an advanced message-driven split-transaction computing model for scalable low-power fault-tolerant operation. In addition, he is developing an ultra lightweight supervisor runtime kernel in support of MIND and other fine grain architectures (like CELL) and the Agincourt parallel programming language for high efficiency through intrinsics in support of latency hiding and low overhead synchronization for both conventional and innovative parallel computer architectures.

	Taylor, Ian Visiting Professor Room 346, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 8933
Ian Taylor is a visiting assistant professor. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University. He is the co-chair for the Appliance Aggregation Group in the P2P area of the GGF.

	Ullmer, Brygg Assistant Professor Room 331, Frey CSC Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 0813 http://csc.lsu.edu/~ullmer/
Brygg Ullmer is an assistant professor, jointly at CCT and in computer science. He received his Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Media Laboratory). He leads visualization and human-computer interaction efforts at CCT, including the Tangible Visualization group (jointly in CCT and CS).

Zhang, Hangchao
Assistant Professor

Room 226, Johnston hall
Department: Mathematics
+1 225 578 0828
[email-address]

www.math.lsu.edu/~hozhang

Post-doctoral Researchers

Gudi, Dr. Thirupathi
Post Doctoral Researcher

Room 328, Johnston Hall
Department: Mathematics
+1 225 578 8908
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Susanne Brenner

Tao, Dr. Jian
Post Doctoral Researcher

Room 229, Johnston Hall
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
+1 225 578 1834
[email-address]

Supervisor: Gabrielle Allen

Staff

Benger, Dr. Werner
Scientific Visualization at LCAT
IT Analyst 3

Room 335, Frey CSC
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
+1 225 578 7150
[email-address]

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~werner/

Werner's primary expertise is visualization of general relativity, ranging from gravitational lensing to scientific visualization of dynamical simulations of gravitational waves utilizing advanced Grid technology. His techniques can well be applied to other domains such as medical imaging.

He graduated with distinction in astronomy at the University of Innsbruck in 1997. The same year he joined the Zuse Institute for Information Technology in Berlin in a joint position with the Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, the Albert-Einstein Institute, Potsdam. There he worked on extending and applying the in-house medical visualization software system (the now commercially available Amira software) to astrophysical data sets from numerical relativity. He received his Ph.D. "Magna Cum Laude" in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Free University of Berlin for research on a unifying model for scientific data and visualization techniques for tensor fields. His images appeared in many magazines, journal covers, TV broadcasts and artistic events.

Brandt, Steven
Staff
IT Consultant

Room 342, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 5431
[email-address]

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~sbrandt/

Steven Brandt obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana for his research in numerical simulations of rotating black holes. After obtaining his Ph.D. and doing some postdoctoral work, he joined industry where he gained experience in corporate programming environments. In 2005 he joined CCT and has been looking into ways to improve programming tools and environments for parallel environments, managing allocations and maintenance on Supermike, and in rekindling his research efforts in numerical relativity.

Brodowicz, Maciej
IT Consultant

Room 327, Johnston Hall
+1 225 334 2457
[email-address]

Maciej Brodowicz received M.S.E.E. from the Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) in 1991, M.S. in Computer Science from University of Houston in 1994 and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Houston in 1998. He was employed at the California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral scholar and later promoted to the research staff position. At Caltech, he was involved in a Scalable I/O framework developing I/O algorithms for the ASC program, investigated scalability of parallel applications on supercomputers, and, in collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, designed micro-architecture and a hardware emulator for the MIND implementation of the Processor-In-Memory concept.

Maciej's research interests at CCT include advanced computer architecture, parallel execution models, architectural and fuctional simulation, performance monitoring and prediction, scalable I/O subsystems and strategies, parallel application development and frameworks, and operating and runtime systems.

	Dekate, Chirag IT Analyst 2 Room 328, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 6868 Supervisor: Thomas Sterling Faculty Advisor: Thomas Sterling http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~cdekate
I earned my B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Louisiana State University. I am currently a PhD Candidate in Computer Science. I am currently employed as a Graduate Research Assistant with Dr. Thomas Sterling. My research interests include Machine Intelligence, Distributed Systems. My broader research interests include Transformation of Information and Knowledge representation.

	El-Khamra, Yaakoub IT Analyst 2 Room 211, Johnston Hall +1 225 578 8904
Yaakoub El Khamra works in the Frameworks group on the Cactus computational framework. He is a graduate of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the American University of Beirut. His research interests include computational frameworks, computational fluid dynamics, numerical methods and petroleum engineering.

	Ge, Jinghua Visualization Consultant IT Consultant Room 357, Frey CSC Department: Center for Computation & Technology +1 225 578 7789 Supervisor: Daniel S. Katz http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~jinghuage
Jinghua Ge is a computational visualization environment consultant at CCT. She graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago at 2007. Her research interests include distributed visualization of large scale datasets, remote visualization pipeline, computer graphics, and virtual reality.

Hutanu, Andrei
IT Analyst 2

Room 350, Johnston Hall
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
+1 225 578 0811
[email-address]

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~ahutanu

Andrei Hutanu graduated in 2002 and received his engineering diploma in Computer Science from
Politehnica University of Bucharest. Currently he is a researcher in the Grid and Visualization departments of the Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University. Prior to this he was employed for two years as a researcher in the Visualization department of the Zuse Institute Berlin. His research interests are distributed interactive visualization, data management and optical network applications.

Kaiser, Carola
IT Analyst 3

Room 3191, Energy, Coast, & Environment
+1 225 578 2893
[email-address]

Carola works in a joint position at CCT and WBI to build a bridge between CCT's computational services and tools and WBI's CLEAR coastal modeling applications.

She has been working with Geographic Information Systems since 1992, after obtaining a MS in cartography from the University of Dresden, Germany.
Her research interests include managing spatial data, developing technologies for data implementation, and applying GIS systems in specific research disciplines and collaborative environments.

Kaiser, Hartmut
IT Consultant

Room 315, Johnston Hall
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
+1 225 578 0916
[email-address]

After 15+ interesting years that Hartmut spent working in industrial software development, he still tremendously enjoys working with modern software development technologies and techniques. His preferred field of interest is software development in the area of object-oriented and component-based programming in C++ and its application in complex contexts, such as for spatial information systems, distributed and Grid based applications and parser technologies.

Hartmut got his MS in Computer Science from the Leningrad Electrotechnical University, Petersburg, Russia, in 1985, a Ph.D. and the habilitation in Computer Engineering, in 1988, both from the Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany.

At CCT he is responsible for the integration of different applications with computational Grids.

Kelley, Ian
IT Analyst

Room 332, Johnston Hall
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
[email-address]

http://www.kelley.tv/

Ian has been working in distributed systems and Grid computing since 1999, first at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and now here at CCT.

His primary interests are in helping to bridge the gap between end-users and the services and tools that are being developed within the research community. To this end, Ian hopes to bring some of the advances in P2P and Grid technology into the space that a user can effectively utilize them for his or her research. He has been working since 2001 on building Collaborative Environments (namely portals) and Testing Frameworks for this purpose.

Kulshrestha, Archit
IT Analyst 2

Room 342, Johnston Hall
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
+1 225 334 2447
[email-address]

Archit is a Grid Admistrator at the Scientific Computing Systems and Software group at CCT. He graduated with a Master's degree in Systems Science from LSU and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from JNTU, India. His primary interests are Grid Computing, Distributed Systems and Software Engineering. At CCT he is involved in various Grid Computing projects such as UCoMS, SCOOP and GAT Development, apart from managing the Grid Resources for CCT.

	Lei, Zhou IT Analyst 2 Room 350, Johnston Hall Department: Center for Computation & Technology +1 225 578 8931
Zhou is a researcher in Grid computing at CCT. He got his Ph.D. in distributed computing from Institute of Computer Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999. His research interests include Grid computing, distributed and parallel systems, and large-scale engineering simulation.

Merzky, Andre
IT Analyst 3

Room Wollin 36, 17291 Randowtal, Germany
Department: Computer Science
+493986264864
[email-address]

Supervisor: Shantenu Jha
http://www.merzky.net

Nabrzyski, Jarek
Executive Director of Operations

Room 220, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 0784
[email-address]

Pellegrini, Mark
Intern

Room 320, Johnston Hall
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Thomas Sterling

Stamou, Katerina
Intern

Room 234, Johnston Hall
[email-address]

Supervisor: Gabrielle Allen

Venkataraman, Shalini
IT Analyst 3

Room 337, Frey CSC
+1 225 578 8221
[email-address]

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~shalini/

Shalini is a research programmer in scientific visualization with the Visualization, Interaction and Digital Arts (VIDA) group at CCT. She graduated with a Master's degree from the Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois-Chicago in 2004. Prior to that, she was a software engineer at the Institute of High-Performance Computing in Singapore. Her research interests include scalable, distributed graphics and volume visualization using programmable graphics hardware.

Graduate Students

	Akturk, Ismail Graduate Research Assistant Room 244, Johnston Hall Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering +1 225 578 7658 Supervisor: Tevfik Kosar
He received a B.S.(2007) degree in Computer Engineering from Dogus University in Turkey. He started a graduate study in Electrical and Computer Engineering department at LSU in Fall 2007. He is currently involved in PetaShare project.

	Balman, Mehmet Graduate Student Room 233, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science Faculty Advisor: Tevfik Kosar http://www.csc.lsu.edu/~balman
I received my BS(2000) and MS(2005) in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University, Turkey. I started PhD in Computer Science at Louisiana State University in August 2005. My research interests include data placement and job scheduling in widely distributed environments.

Cui, Jintao

[email-address]

Supervisor: Susanne Brenner

Cui, Vamsi
Graduate Assistant

Duff, Richard
Graduate Student

Room 328, Johnston Hall
Department: Petroleum Engineering
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Gabrielle Allen

Richard received his MS and BS in Petroleum Engineering from University of Missouri Rolla. He has worked in drilling, stimulation, simulation, cutting, tool design, application development, manufacturing optimization, logistics, 3-D modeling, rock mechanics and explosives testing. In August 2004 he joined Louisiana State University as a doctoral student in the Petroleum Engineering department. Currently he is working at CCT, LSU, as a graduate research assistant in Grid Computing, Drilling Optimization, and Formation Evaluation research developing applications for the (DOE / LBR) Ubiquitous Computing Project (UCOMS). His current research interests include drilling optimization, vibration petrophysics, logging while drilling, finite element modeling of vibrating systems, and rock mechanics.

	Guidry, Richard Graduate Assistant Room 320, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science Faculty Advisor: Thomas Sterling
Richard has a BS in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from Louisiana State University. From Fall 2006, he began his work toward a Ph.D. in Computer Science here at LSU. His interests include compiler design, programming languages, machine translation, and human languages. Richard is currently working on a programming language tailored for ParalleX.

	Harhad, Farid Graduate Assistant Room 300, Frey CSC Department: Computer Science
I'm a Ph.D. student in Computer Science. I've also joined the CFD-IGERT program. I obtained my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from LSU with a minor in Mathematics. My research interests are Scientific Visualization, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Human-Computer Interaction. My faculty advisors are: Dr. Bijaya Karki, Dr. Brygg Ullmer, Dr. Sumanta Acharya, and Dr. Werner Benger.

Jiang, Lei

Room 244, Johnston hall
[email-address]

Supervisor: Gabrielle Allen

Kavalipati, Ravi Tej
Graduate Assistant

Department: Computer Science
[email-address]

Supervisor: Hartmut Kaiser

Kumar, Suman
Graduate Assistant

Department: Computer Science
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Seung-Jong Park
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/about/focus/lanet/

I got my Undergraduate degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), BHU, India. During my undergraduate studies I published a few research papers in international journals and conferences in solid state and microwave devices. I also worked in industries in areas Oracle PL-SQL, J2E and Databases. Currently I am a PhD Student and a member of LANet group, LSU in computer science. My research interests include High Speed Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Network Modelling and Simulation, High Performance Computing, and Algorithm Optimization.

	Li, Xin Graduate Assistant Room 328, Johnston Hall Department: Petroleum Engineering Faculty Advisor: Christopher White
I work at CCT UCoMS group and concentrate on developing ResGrid, which is the first reservoir simulation grid. My research interests include designed reservoir simulation and response surface model, stochastic simulation, automatic history match, grid computing and its application in Petroleum Engineering.

OConnell, Sean

[email-address]

Supervisor: Gabrielle Allen

Pena, Santiago
Graduate Student

Room 234, Johnston Hall
Department: Information Systems & Decision Sciences
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Rudy Hirschheim
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~santiago/

I graduated from the University Blas Pascal in Argentina with a degree in Telecommunications Engineering. I earned an M.S. in Physics from the University of Texas at Brownsville. I recently completed my second master's degree in Systems Science at Louisiana State University under the supervision of Dr. Gabrielle Allen, performing research on Grid Computing.

Currently, I'm a graduate assistant at the Center for Computation & Technology at LSU. I'm pursuing my Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration in Information Systems and Decision Sciences under the supervision of Rudy Hirschheim. My research interests include SOA management, business ontologies, and the application of Grid technologies to business.

Stark, Dylan
Graduate Student

Room 234, Johnston Hall
Department: Computer Science
+1 225 578 8937
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Thomas Sterling
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~dstark/

I am a PhD candidate in the Computer Science department at Louisiana State University. I received a BS in Computer Science and a BS in Mathematics from Louisiana State University. I have been a graduate assistant at CCT since August 2004. I am part of the Frameworks group, working with the Cactus Computational Toolkit. My current interest is in semantic web technologies and their applications to scientific computing.

Sundararajan, Hari
Undergraduate Student

Room 320, Johnston Hall
Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering
+1 225 578 8930
[email-address]

Supervisor: Maciej Brodowicz
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Sterling

I am currently a junior in computer engineering, and have been with CCT from summer 06. I work under the supervision of Dr. Sterling and Dr. Brodowicz. I was responsible for building the cluster for Dr. Sterling's class, and continue to maintain it (http://cct.lsu.edu/~hsunda3/doc). I am involved with his Px group, and work on multithreading.
I also enjoy taking graduate courses and am definitely looking forward to classes with CCT faculty.

Tabbal, Alexandre (aka Alex)
Research Assistant

Room 320, Johnston Hall
Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering
[email-address]

Supervisor: Maciej Brodowicz
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Sterling
http://www.ece.lsu.edu/~atabbal/

Alex Tabbal, graduate student joined the ECE department at LSU as a PhD candidate after earning a Bachelor of Science in Computer & Communication Engineering from the American University of Science & Technology, Beirut, Lebanon. Alex's research interests focus on system architecture for high performance computing applications; using reconfigurable hardware for a new model of computation. He is also interested in power consumption issues for parallel computer machines.

Toole, Cornelius
Graduate Student

Room 320, Frey CSC
Department: Computer Science
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Brygg Ullmer

I'm a doctoral student within the Computer Science Department. I completed Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Computer Science at Jackson State University respectively in 2003 and 2005 and started here at the LSU/CCT Fall 2005. Currently I'm investigating brokering techniques to help manage distributed visualization applications as part of the Enlightened Project. I'm also working with the Tangible Visualization Group to find ways to apply brokering and other distibuted computing concepts to support co-located, computer-supported, collaborative use of tangible interaction devices in scenarios such as remote visualization and teleconference sessions. My research interests include visualization, human computer interfaces, distributed computing and design.

	Wu, Yixin Graduate student Room 320, Frey CSC Department: Computer Science Faculty Advisor: Seung-Jong Park
I got BE in Computer Science & Engineering from Soochow University in 2001, and ME in Computer Science & Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2004. After that I worked as an embedded system engineer in Shanghai for one and half years. I am a graduate student of Dr. Park since August 2006. Now I am doing some research on the tcp protocol of high speed network with Dr. Park.

Zhang, Qian

[email-address]

Undergraduate Students

Buleu, Ana Elena
Research Undergraduate Student

Room 332, Johnston Hall
Department: Electrical Engineering
[email-address]

Supervisor: Werner Benger
Faculty Advisor: Gabrielle Allen

I have started working at CCT, and doing my undergraduate degree at LSU in January 2006. I am a Sophomore now in the Engineering College. I worked in the Performance Group for a couple of months, learning how to deal with Cactus benchmarking. Since July 2006, I have worked in the Visualization Group under the supervision of Shalini Venkataraman, and Dr. Werner Benger. I am dealing with C/C++ programming, and the HDF5 file format. I attended the Grid Computing Workshop in South Padre, Texas, in the summer of 2006.

	Clary, Alex Student Researcher Research Associate Room 332, Johnston Hall Department: Center for Computation & Technology Supervisor: Archit Kulshrestha
I am an electrical and computer engineering student. I am from Baton Rouge. My specialties are computer game modification. I work on the SCOOP project.

	Davidson, Andrew Student Worker Room 334, Johnston Hall Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering +1 225 578 8904 Supervisor: Shalini Venkataraman Faculty Advisor: Gabrielle Allen http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~adavidson
Andrew is a junior at LSU, and a member of the Louisiana Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (LA-STEM) Scholarship Program. He has been working at CCT since May of 2005 and his current research is the use of GPUs for General Purpose computation.

Kolz, Kevin

[email-address]

Supervisor: Gabrielle Allen

	Lewis, John Undergraduate Student Room 332, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science Supervisor: Gabrielle Allen Faculty Advisor: Gabrielle Allen
John began working in the CCT department as a portal developer for the Ubiquitous Computing and Monitoring Systems (UCoMS) in the fall of 2005. Recently he has been given the honor to present his research at the Student Undergraduate Research Forum (SURF) summer of 2006 and the Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics fall of 2006.

	Losso, Mariel Undergraduate Student Room 343, Frey CSC Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering Faculty Advisor: Brygg Ullmer
I am a senior majoring in Computer Engineering, with a minor in Computer Science. I am working for the Viz team doing various work from soldering to researching capabilities and functions of the microprocessors that we use.

	Miceli, Chris Undergraduate Student Department: Computer Science Supervisor: Hartmut Kaiser Faculty Advisor: Shantenu Jha
I am a CSC major working with Dr. Hartmut Kaiser of incorporating a complete series tests into the C++ implementation of the SAGA api. I am a interesting in kernels and management of resources.

	Nagelberg, Alex Room 346, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science Supervisor: Daniel S. Katz Faculty Advisor: Daniel S. Katz
I'm currently a sophomore majoring in computer science at LSU. I've been with CCT for about 3 years. I just finished an internship at Argonne National Laboratory working on the ZeptoOS project and am now back with CCT in the performance group.

	Perricone, Robert Undergraduate Student Room 320, Johnston Hall Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering Supervisor: Maciej Brodowicz Faculty Advisor: Thomas Sterling
Robert has been at LSU since August 2004 and is currently an undergraduate student double majoring in electrical and computer engineering. He started working at CCT in the Fall '06 as an undergraduate researcher with Dr. Sterling's Research Group. He is also a member of the LA-STEM Research Scholars Program and has previously been involved in research at MIT.

Other

	Ceyhan, Emrah Graduate Assistant Room 233, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 7511 Faculty Advisor: Tevfik Kosar http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~eceyhan/
I received my undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Louisiana State University. I'm currently doing my Masters in the Computer Science department. I'm working under the supervision of Dr. Tevfik Kosar on the UCoMS project. My research interests include data intensive computing, and distributed systems.

Goodale, Tom
Research Associate

Room 324, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 6868
[email-address]

	Gopu, Vikram Kumar Graduate Assistant Room 328, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science http://my.lsu.edu/vgopu1
I received my undergraduate degree in Computer Science from JNTU, Hyderabad, India. I'm currently pursuing my Masters in the Computer Science. I'm working under the supervision of Dr. Tevfik Kosar on the Stork project.

Huang, Wei
Graduate Student

Room 401, Choppin Hall
Department: Biological Sciences
[email-address]

Supervisor: Shantenu Jha
Faculty Advisor: Shantenu Jha

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